Famous characters of literature

             Dr. Jekyll once said, that "man is not truly one, but truly two." In each of us lie a civilized man which is the good and an uncivilized man which is evil. Several of my characters will prove that this theory truly exists in us all. How we fight within ourselves to do what's right and what we do to have that accomplished, regardless of the sacrifice we have to make and the people we have to hurt. All the characters in my research are virtual outcasts with singular gifts that are both a blessing and a curse.
             Let's take first Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego Mr. Hyde who are one in the same. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written and published in 1886. The author was Robert Louis Stevenson who was born in 1850 and died in 1894. These characters appeared in the event of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the Victorian times of Britain. The novel was partially based on Stevenson's play Deacon Brodia. In the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll believed that with in us we have two sides. In experimenting to make what he believes to be a fact he created a transforming drug. Using himself as a guinea pig and working very hard and longs hours he found away to separate his evil nature. Jekyll used himself as a guinea pig to prove his theory completely doing so he created a monster which was a reflection of his evil nature the repulsive Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll was an attractive man of high statue and respectable persona where Mr. Hyde was tall, large, hostile, and aggressive with disfiguring features which is identified as the ugliness in him. Dr. Jekyll was troubled by the dual life he was leading, and so when his scientific interest led to mystical studies of the divided nature of man, he hoped that he had found a solution to his problem. He soon was running out of the transforming drug and it wasn't long before strong and evil Mr. Hyde beat out the weaker Jekyll. Jekyll now finds himself a slave t...

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